To echo and earlier post, what's the operational importance of assigning adjacent /8s? Are you hoping to aggregate them into a /7? --Richard
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:16 AM, William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nick Hilliard wrote: >> >> On 22/01/2010 13:54, William Allen Simpson wrote: >>> >>> Why not 36 & 37? >> >> Random selection to ensure that no RIR can accuse IANA of bias. See >> David's previous post: >> >> http://blog.icann.org/2009/09/selecting-which-8-to-allocate-to-an-rir/ >> > Because relying on a blog post for policy really meets everybody's > definition of rationality.... :-( > > If you're assigning 2 at the same time, they should be adjacent. > > The dribbles here and there policy never was particularly satisfying, > because it assumes that this was all temporary until the widespread > deployment of IPv6. > >